1. What you need to know

2. The OSSLT is a provincial test of literacy (reading and writing) skills students have acquired by grade 10 Its successful completion is a requirement for graduation

3. Grade 10 students Other students who are eligible to write

4. Test DateMarch 31, 2011 Test Materials2 test booklets and 1 Student Answer sheet Duration2.5 hours of test time ResultsAn Individual Student Report with your results will be mailed to you in June

5. 5 reading passages 10 questions related to readings 48 multiple choice questions related to the readings 54 questions based on grammar, spelling and reading and writing skills 2 short writing tasks 2 long writing tasks

6. Informational Reading (225-250 words) paragraph news report Narrative dialogue (225-250 words) real-life narrative (about 600 words) Graphic (fewer than 150 words) Types of questions: multiple choice open response (6 lines each)

7. Long-writing tasks news report (1 page) series of paragraphs expressing an opinion (2 pages) Two short-writing tasks (six lines each) Types of Questions: multiple-choice developing a main idea with supporting details organization of ideas language conventions

8. Only those who are eligible to write will attend in the morning Those who are not writing will not attend that day. Students writing the Literacy Test will be at school from 7:45 a.m. – 11: 40 a.m. This time includes instruction, the test and a short break between Test Booklets

9. 7:45-9:40SESSION 1: Instructions and Booklet 1- reading and writing activities 9:40-10:00Break 10:00-11:40SESSION 2: Instructions and Booklet 2- reading and writing activities PLEASE BE ON TIME PLEASE COME PREPARED

10. Visit the Library Myclass site for: How To Powerpoints for all Literacy Test tasks Link to the EQAO website with practice tests Access to other helpful on-line resources Come into the library to see our bulletin board with all sorts of helpful information!